17 OCT 18 :: China has fiercely defended an escalating crackdown in the far western province of Xinjiang as necessary for security, claiming inmates of "re-education camps" are happier following their imprisonment. @cnni

17 OCT 18 :: "I see the pivot to Asia as the encirclement of China, then the shrinking of its operating theatre and then lighting the tinderbox that is the periphery and Xinjiang might well morph into China's Afghanistan" War is coming